I find internet mobs to be different than cackling at someone who deserves a public shaming. Maybe I'm mistaken

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Maybe I’m came off as admonishing fastix for posting the thread which wasn’t my intention. I’ve seen this guy several places today. He is in fact news and all I’m asking is why is this important? Of course the implication is this is commonplace which it isn’t.

The Internet doesn't care what you're a fan of, or what I'm a fan of, or what anybody is a fan of. The Internet has room for everything and anything, so it doesn't have to take our personal likes and opinions into consideration. It just puts it all out there and you and I can choose what we do or don't look at.

Because it's a white guy saying something bad about minorities......so of course it's national news

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Even Fox News agrees with you. More likely though is that it's "news" because it went viral. That means views, views means money, and that's why it's picked up by an organization as big as Fox News (and the headline says as much). Some white guy simply saying something bad about minorities in a YouTube video with a couple hundred views probably wouldn't make the cut.

I'll be honest, I'm much more comfortable with accepting that there are intermittent casual angry bigots in public society than that there are 10^n number of people willing to drop what they are doing and scour the Earth for the impure thinker on a moment's notice.

I'll be honest, I'm much more comfortable with accepting that there are intermittent casual angry bigots in public society than that there are 10^n number of people willing to drop what they are doing and scour the Earth for the impure thinker on a moment's notice.

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Me too, but worrying about it isn't going to change that. I feel worse for the people who go viral for non vile reasons though. If you're a racist/bigot and go viral because of that, then I don't feel bad for you. If you go viral for something that's simply embarrassing or awkward, that's a different story. Edit: To be completely honest - I'll still watch the video though.

I have never been a fan of doxxers. There are a lot of disturbed people in this world and the reality is that we just have to learn to live with them. Mostly that means ignoring their bullshit when we can and walking away. But it takes a special kind of asshole to want to ruin someone's life or career over a stupid rant.

I have never been a fan of doxxers. There are a lot of disturbed people in this world and the reality is that we just have to learn to live with them. Mostly that means ignoring their bullshit when we can and walking away. But it takes a special kind of asshole to want to ruin someone's life or career over a stupid rant.

Interestingly enough, apparently the guy was caught on video before this telling some Jewish people they weren't Jews.

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I think I read it was because they were Jews who were demonstrating in support of Palestine? Maybe like a "Jews for Allah" version of Jews for Jesus? In my experience with the Chosen People, some of them tend to get really riled up by that sort of thing.